Aviation

The European Union’s Court of Justice has overturned a decision from the European Commission which had given the green light to a €1.2Bn aid package to bailout Portugal’s national carrier TAP. [...]

Non-essential travel to and from the United Kingdom has been given the green light, this time by the Portuguese government. From midnight on Monday travellers from the UK to Portugal will simply [...]

Just as Portugal expects to welcome thousands of UK and other visitors on holiday in the country, the staff working for the baggage handler that operates at its airports are facing delays to [...]

The pent up demand in the UK holiday market for flights to Portugal’s Algarve region is resulting in airline companies boosting their seats by tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands in [...]

Portugal’s new development bank Banco Português de Fomento turned down a €30 million loan request from removals king Alfredo Casimiro to help save Groundforce. According to a document that news [...]

Flights at Lisbon airport doubled in the first two weeks of the summer following the change to British summer time. The increase in flight numbers was mainly down to internal flights operated by [...]

The CEO of Ryanair, Eddie Wilson has slammed the Portuguese government’s decision to step in and bail out TAP as “discriminatory against other airline companies.” And he has accused the European [...]

Almost 800 TAP staff have signed up to a voluntary redundancy package to quit the national carrier. Applications for amicable redundancy by mutual agreement, early retirement, part time [...]

TAP announced yesterday that the purchase of Groundforce assets for €7 million should be completed today. “SPdH (Groundforce) via a letter signed by its chairman and CEO, have confirmed that it [...]

Pasogal, the majority shareholder in the Portuguese airports baggage handler Groundforce, said yesterday that it was open to “consider a capital raise” in SPdH, reserved for shareholders after an [...]